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0:00hey everybody welcome to this a1
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0:19you ready so today i'm gonna talk about
0:23technology this is a great topic
0:26because we all use technology every day
0:30you're using technology to watch this
0:32video
0:33right now so let's talk about some
0:36different kinds of technology today
0:39one really important type of technology
0:42is computer technology
0:44computers today are much different than
0:47computers from the past
0:4920 or 30 years ago computers were really
0:53limited
0:54they couldn't do the things that
0:56computers do today
0:58in the past they were also really big
1:01but today computers come in many
1:04different sizes
1:06computers today are fast powerful
1:10and easy to use i remember when i
1:13first started using the computer i was
1:16six years old i liked playing computer
1:19games
1:20but all the games were very basic at
1:23that time
1:24i still thought they were really fun
1:27today
1:28computer games are very complex alright
1:31now let's talk about cell phones when i
1:34was a kid
1:35not many people had cell phones most
1:39people used
1:40landlines which are phones inside your
1:43house
1:44nowadays not many people have landlines
1:47everyone has cell phones now i remember
1:50getting my first
1:51cell phone when i was 12 years old
1:54i thought it was so cool these days
1:58phones are extremely important because
2:01you can do
2:02almost anything on your phone but i
2:04think the most
2:05important technology today is the
2:08internet
2:09most people use the internet every day
2:12to do
2:12many things people like me need the
2:16internet
2:16in order to work if i don't have
2:19internet
2:19i can't work we also use the internet to
2:23study
2:23to shop and to entertain ourselves
2:27i can't imagine not having the internet
2:30i use it for many hours every day
2:33how about you how many hours a day
2:36do you use the internet okay now let's
2:40talk about
2:41technology of the past for example
2:44one really important invention was the
2:47motorized vehicle
2:49or the car before cars people traveled
2:52by
2:53horse by foot or in other ways
2:56when the car was invented people were
2:59able to travel
3:00more easily cars from the past looked
3:04very different from today's cars i think
3:07old cars looked pretty cool another
3:10really
3:10important invention was electricity
3:14before electricity people had to use
3:17candles and fire for light at night
3:21the cities were much darker than today
3:24nowadays our cities have so much light
3:27at night
3:28and of course we use electricity for so
3:31many different things today
3:33sometimes the electricity goes out and
3:36everything stops working i hate when the
3:40electricity goes out
3:42one more important invention was the
3:44television
3:46in the past television was the greatest
3:49form of entertainment everyone sat down
3:52in the evenings
3:53and watched tv nowadays more people
3:57watch tv shows on their computers
4:00like on netflix many young people
4:03prefer doing everything on their
4:05computer or cell phone
4:07alright that's all for today leave a
4:10comment and tell me what your favorite
4:12technology is
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4:28[Music]
4:34[Applause]
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